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Can you say whether you are yourself an active cyclist?
by wool_gather 7y ago
Can you say whether you are yourself an active cyclist?
- willis936 7y agoYes I am. It’s nice for all the reasons people beat the drum about, but the biggest one for me is convenience. Driving and parking in a city is a nightmare. Biking is marginally slower than taking the bus and by comparison biking grants much more freedom. Frankly, I think it’s insane that anyone who regularly bikes would not wear a helmet. I push back so hard against this notion of not wearing a helmet because of how catastrophic a tiny incident can be.
- wool_gather 7y agoThanks. I also bike for my day-to-day transport, and love it. I go back and forth about the helmet issue personally. Though I've almost never not worn one. My general feeling is that it's not much of a burden to me. And while the cases where it's actually going to help are narrower than most people think (especially people looking from the perspective of a car impact), it does improve the outcome in those cases quite a bit. So it's worthwhile. If nothing else helmets are good places to mount lights, which are definitely an important safety measure! :)